The Times - Specialist - November 7 2021 Crossword Puzzle Solution

 

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 291
Clues	Answers
"And don't call me ____" ends some famous dialogue in Airplane!	SHIRLEY
"But the idling of our ____ is called business" (Augustine, Confessions)	ELDERS
"To be weak is miserable, ____" (Paradise Lost)	Doing or suffering
"We love him [or her] ____" is often followed by "but"	DEARLY
1979 album and single by Fleetwood Mac	TUSK
A business with a network	TELCO
A light and clear red colour	CERISE
A northern English name for a ravine	CLOUGH
Abertawe	SWANSEA
Actor famously seen hanging from a clock in the 1923 film Safety Last!	Harold Lloyd
Actress who played Bond girl Jinx in Die Another Day	Halle Berry
American singer who became Instagram's most followed musician in 2019	Ariana Grande
An image of a god	IDOL
Author of the 1960 novel Ring of Bright Water	Gavin Maxwell
Brightest star of the Aquila constellation	ALTAIR
City of London ward, formerly the home of a fish market	BILLINGSGATE
Colloquially, vehicles which use a lot of fuel	gas guzzlers
Drops of Jupiter (____) was a 2001 hit single by Train	Tell Me
English thriller writer, at least 30 of whose books have so far been made into films	James Hadley Chase
First male tennis player to appear in 19 grand-slam finals	Ivan Lendl
French military decoration created in 1915	Croix de Guerre
Gaby ____ was a presenter of BBC Children in Need, 1995-2004	roslin
Groups of shackled convicts working outside prison	chain gangs
Historical region, now home to about 60 per cent of Czechs	BOHEMIA
Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn starred in the 1951 film The ____	African Queen
In an anglicised spelling, a weapon of the Jedi knights in the Star Wars films	lightsabre
In Dad's Army, Pike was sometimes "____ Mr Mainwaring"	all wet
Italian almond macaroons	AMARETTI
Italian rice which is said to produce a creamier risotto than arborio	carnaroli
Italian-born cardinal Jules ____ was France's first minister of state, 1642-61	MAZARIN
Julian and Sandy spoke Polari in ____ on 1960s radio	Round the Horne
Makes slightly sour	ACIDULATES
Member of Portugal's Euro 2012 team; an anagram of his team captain's surname	rolando
Musical mistakenly announced as the best picture of 2016 at an Oscars ceremony	la-la land
Noumea is the capital of this French overseas territory in the Pacific Ocean	New Caledonia
One of Patrick ____'s detective roles was DS Steve Hackett in Target, a BBC attempt to outdo The Sweeney	MOWER
Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club is in this area of London	SOHO
The hyrax of South Africa	DASSIE
The Jewish festivals of Yom Kippur and Rosh Hashana	High Holidays
The River Teifi's ____ Falls are its first significant barrier for salmon heading upstream to spawn	CENARTH
The Taj Mahal is in this city	AGRA
The terminal structure of an axon	nerve ending
The ____ is anachronistically included in a list of musical instruments in the King James Bible's book of Daniel	SACKBUT
The ____ is between the gradually separating African and Arabian tectonic plates	Red Sea Rift
The ____ pippin is an eating apple first grown in Essex	STURMER
The ____ produces a fruit sometimes called Chinese date	jujube tree
Vitamin-rich cereal extract, often added to foods	WHEATGERM
____ is the use of data by businesses to describe, predict, and improve their performance	ANALYTICS
____ played Lydia Deetz in the 1988 film Beetlejuice	Winona Ryder
____'s disease is an earlier name for nephritis	BRIGHT